Orange Business Services, France Telecom Group’s division for worldwide enterprise services and a leading information and communications technology provider, has enhanced its next-generation converged IP network in Asia Pacific to deliver greater coverage, capacity, performance and resilience to its multinational enterprise customers.
Designed to handle data, voice, video, mobility and versatile access methods, Orange Business Services’ next-generation network integrates innovations like Multicast, IPv6 and Telepresence support. In particular, the Orange network is capable of handling in-the-cloud application acceleration and security as well as converged voice, video and telepresence services.
“Enterprises operating in Asia Pacific need networks that will help them adapt to the new economic realities and the need for greater cost control, while responding in tandem to the demand for rapid presence anywhere, anytime as the business requires,†said Yee-May Leong, senior vice president Asia Pacific, Orange Business Services.
In recognition of leadership in the Asia Pacific market, Orange Business Services was named Best Managed Services Provider and Best Asian Telecom Carrier at the Telecom Asia Awards 2009, Asia’s leading telecom industry honors, in Hong Kong on March 27. Also, Orange Business Services won the Best Business Service Solution award from Telecom World, China’s leading telecommunications magazine, for Business Acceleration at a ceremony on March 31.
Orange Business Services’ APAC network includes 60 next-generation routers to support the company’s new service enhancements, such as:
* high bandwidth International Ethernet Link available in seven countries, including: Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea;
* Network Boost for application prioritization, management and SLA to ensure required quality for critical applications;
* IP VPN for Telepresence to meet enterprise needs to reduce travel costs and enable remote meetings; and
* Network Protect which provides embedded security needed by branch offices to deal with new threats and provide 24/7 managed security.
Orange Business Services is present in 40 countries in Asia Pacific. Ten diverse cable paths link APAC to the rest of the world with paths optimized for fast response time, including:
* Asia-Europe direct path via Russia;
* India-Middle East direct path;
* Asia-South Africa direct path;
* South Korea-Hong Kong direct path; and
* Taiwan-Japan direct path.
Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan, key APAC backbone countries, are being transformed to a 2.5G bandwidth “ring†while India and Australia are connected by multiple 622M links. Trans-Pacific and Asia-Europe links have also been upgraded to Gbit/s levels. Domestic networks in key countries, including India, will reach Gbit/s level in 2009. All these capacities are dedicated to multinational customers’ intranet traffic and decoupled from the public Internet.
